提出轻量级深度学习模型,快速精准注册心脏MRI,用于量化心肌应变。
A Deep Learning Based Method for Fast Registration of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images
- 设计高效卷积架构,实现体积化快速配准。
- 推理速度远超同类方法,精度接近顶尖模型。
- 适合临床与科研场景,尤其适用于动态心脏影像分析。
图像配准广泛应用于医学图像分析,如追踪心脏组织运动以评估心肌健康。由于真实变换难以获取且存在多种可能的匹配方式,深度学习方法面临挑战。现有无监督方法虽能学习有效变换,但推理时间过长。为促进深度学习在科研和临床中的应用,需在普通中端硬件上实现合理运行速度。现有快速方法多采用基于块的方法,可能影响心脏等高动态器官的配准精度。本文提出一种快速轻量注册(FLIR)模型,用于量化心脏应变。该深度学习神经网络(DLNN)采用高效卷积结构,实现与当前最优模型相当的配准精度,同时推理时间大幅缩减。利用同一患者、相近时间采集的数据,应变值差异极小,验证了FLIR方法计算结果的高度一致性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Image registration is used in many medical image analysis applications, such as tracking the motion of tissue in cardiac images, where cardiac kinematics can be an indicator of tissue health. Registration is a challenging problem for deep learning algorithms because ground truth transformations are not feasible to create, and because there are potentially multiple transformations that can produce images that appear correlated with the goal. Unsupervised methods have been proposed to learn to predict effective transformations, but these methods take significantly longer to predict than established baseline methods. For a deep learning method to see adoption in wider research and clinical settings, it should be designed to run in a reasonable time on common, mid-level hardware. Fast methods have been proposed for the task of image registration but often use patch-based methods which can affect registration accuracy for a highly dynamic organ such as the heart. In this thesis, a fast, volumetric registration model is proposed for the use of quantifying cardiac strain. The proposed Deep Learning Neural Network (DLNN) is designed to utilize an architecture that can compute convolutions incredibly efficiently, allowing the model to achieve registration fidelity similar to other state-of-the-art models while taking a fraction of the time to perform inference. The proposed fast and lightweight registration (FLIR) model is used to predict tissue motion which is then used to quantify the non-uniform strain experienced by the tissue. For acquisitions taken from the same patient at approximately the same time, it would be expected that strain values measured between the acquisitions would have very small differences. Using this metric, strain values computed using the FLIR method are shown to be very consistent.
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